New STAMPS to the ETSY SHOP!! NOW!!

Hello friends!
We have 4 stamps that have yet to be seen in our etsy shop!  Above is one of my favorites: HOPE TRANSFORMED and you will find it on the first page of our shop and also under our 4x6 Scripture category!  Patty used this in her card shown here:

Chere made this..

Here is my Bible Art Journaling page using one of the Scriptures off of this great set (HYMN: CHURCH AND HOUSES, SKETCHY UPPERCASE ALPHABET, BIND AND STITCH stamp sets also used and can be found at our etsy shop)

NEXT up
are the final introductions of our military characters to the etsy shop:
First up is our tallest (comes on a 3x4"acetate sheet):  MILITARY SOLDIER:
Kary made the first one and I made the last two:

2 New HIS LITTLE ONES round out our military character sets:
HIS LITTLE ONES: SOLDIER WITH HELMET is on a card I made next to His Little Ones: Soldier Boy that entered the etsy shop last week:

HIS LITTLE ONES: SOLDIER WITH FLAG is last I made into an ornament:

Head over to the Etsy shop to see these and all of our stamps:
www.etsy.com/shop/GodblessyourART

We have DAILY posts on our other blog GODblessyourART.blogspot.com sharing Beginning Bible Art Journaling through Psalm 119! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and your continued support of Inspired Stamps!  We are truly blessed by you!
Blessings,
Antoinette

25 Days of Christmas Bible Art Journaling: Getting started!

Hello friends,
Finally!!  I have been digging into my 25 Days of Christmas Bible Art Journal today and loving every minute of it!  Why 25 Days of Christmas you may ask?  Because I wanted to get a few sections of my FAVORITE Scriptures about the 1st Coming of our Lord put into a fun place where I can read them all together!  I am actually doing more than 25 verses, because I have 8 verses from Matthew, 16 from Luke, and another 10ish from John (couldn't leave my favorite gospel out!). 

I will also be starting a 52 week Bible Art Journaling segment I will let you know more about next week, but for now, just know you will want a journal of some sort OR a journaling bible (I'll be using both), such as the one I have here:

 See all the room on the sides?  It's made to journal in...we will be ART JOURNALING in it and you are going to LOVE what we do!

For today, I am using a Ranger Dylusions Dyan Reaveley's Creative Journal that I have half completed.  I made a starting page in the center using dylusions ink sprays, stencils, and Inspired Stamps:

I started off with Inspired Stamps:SOLID ALPHABET UPPERCASE and SKETCHY UPPERCASE ALPHABET and SKETCHY LOWERCASE ALPHABET.  These letters are approximately an inch, some smaller. 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the INSPIRED STAMPS: LABELMAKER ALPHABET because of all the boxes that you can put your words inside of, like the 2014 date:

I'll be back with a few pages tomorrow so you can see how this is going to flow into one Christmas Verse-Packed Art Journal!!

We still have FREE STAMPS to give away for our CYBER WEEK celebration at the etsy shop where we sell all of our stamps:

Thanks for stopping by and tomorrow I'll have the DT artwork up at the top of the blog with their amazing card creations, and you'll want to scroll down to seen the next pages in the 25 Days of Christmas Art Journaling!
Blessings,
Antoinette

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Lesson 2: Memorizing Scripture the first week

Hello friends!
I have really been having a great time working on memorizing GENESIS CHAPTER ONE!!  Today I want to show you some of the pages I created and the decoration of my GENESIS CHAPTER 1 SCRIPTURE book!  If you haven't read about memorizing scripture from the previous posts, be sure to go there first by clicking HERE

I used the technique described in THIS POST to create my album front and back.  I decided to use a mixed media book and cut the watercolor pages, mat them in black, and put them in so I can have some room to create more of a visual to help me memorize the verses:

The photos do not due this book justice...it's just an explosion of colors and texture!  This is the front and below is the back, followed by some close ups I took to try to better show the color/texture:

And here are the first few pages of my book:

I can go back when I get all the pages completed and see if I want to add anything to these pages, but this part of Genesis really lends itself to simple.

We had a great question from VALERIE that I wanted to share the answer to here so all can benefit.  Her question was concerning once you memorize the chapter, you will know the first half much better than the last half due to the consistent repetition of the first part.  So what are recommendations for being solid in memorizing the second half of the chapter?

The key to remembering the entire chapter once you've memorized it, is to continue reciting the entire chapter a few times a week.  So yes, by day 35 you will certainly have the first half better memorized than the last half, but if you continue to recite that chapter a few days a week in its entirety, by month two or three the entire chapter will be well-established in your memory.  The addage 'use it or lose it' really comes into play when we are trying to get something from short term memory into our long term memory.  I have a great example of this.  I know the words to the poem: Ode To Joy by heart in German even today, and I memorized it 25 years ago.  Why do I know it?  Because I had practiced it for months in high school for a German competition!  It still is in my long-term memory, with emphasis and pauses exactly how I learned it then!  So hang in there, Bible-memorizers....you CAN DO THIS!!

We have our DESIGN TEAM day of artwork Thursday so be sure to pop back over and see us!

Let me know if you have any other questions, comments, etc. about Scripture Memorization below!!

Blessings,

Antoinette

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(Stamps used in today's projects are listed below this post)

Day 4: FULL COLLAGE PIECED background

Today is Day 4 of our 31 Days of March: Art Journaling your Bible Study!  If you are just joining us, be sure to click on the photo of our 31Days of March: Art Journaling your Bible Study photo to the right of this post in the blog.  It will take you to all of our posts and get you caught up on what we are doing!

Today I have a sneak peek of 3 new stamp sets that are coming out next week!  SKETCHY UPPERCASE ALPHABET, HYMN: Wings and Feathers, and HYMN GIRLS: MARCH.  I am loving all these hymn-background characters and images!  They all can be colored, but you can also just use your distress ink and a sponge and give them color, like I did here with HYMN GIRLS:  MARCH:

This page was created with a FULL BAZZILL PAPER PIECED background.  I took coordinating papers from this set:

Then cut triangles out to fit across my page:

 I glued them down with glue ( you can use school glue, collage glue, matte medium, or even a glue stick!)

You can see some color behind it, but that's just my paper I used to keep from getting the glue on other pages (I reuse the protecting paper over and over so there is always some previous project ink on them)
Next, I took my mini-distress inks and inked up the edges of all the papers to draw attention to the triangle shapes, used Inspired Stamps: BACKGROUND STAMPS for the dots, and I used modeling paste (as I have in previous days) to give dimension:

I used dylusions spray inks randomly over my papers (white, pink, yellow pure sunshine, and orange) and stamped more with a different stamp from the Inspired Stamps: BACKGROUND STAMPS set.  I stamped my images and cut them out using the Brother Scan-N-Cut machine, and added white 'stitching' using my Sharpie paint pen.

Finally I used the formula for the Bible Study Journaling I shared in previous posts to finish the pages:

I didn't take a close up of these pages, but I used the Sharpie Paint Pen to add highlights to the letters like I did in previous posts.  The word CROSS in on the new HYMN GIRL: MARCH set and I used the box from Inspired Stamps: LABELMAKER ALPHABET around the word to give it definition.

I'll be back tomorrow with a new page!
Leave a comment and let me know you were here!

Blessings,
Antoinette                           shipping most orders SAME DAY they are placed!

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